Have your say on sustainability and win great prizes

For the third year running, we’re working with the Young People’s Trust for the Environment to give you the chance to win a truly unique prize.

We’re looking for people aged between 11 and 18 years old to share their views on the environment with Members of the European Parliament. It’s a chance for Europe’s top decision makers to listen to fresh ideas and perspectives, so we want you to tell them what they’ve got right, what’s going wrong and what you’d do differently.

THREE lucky winners will get:

A day trip from London to Brussels to meet
Members of the European Parliament

Eurostar tickets to Paris for you and three guests

£250 technology vouchers for your school

How to enter

Film a short 3-5 minute video clip telling us what you think about sustainable travel or another environmental issue of your choice. You can use a webcam or mobile phone for this bit.

Then upload your video to YouTube and fill in this entry form with the link to your video and 100 words on why you should win.

Entries close on the 4 November 2014 and the visit to the European Parliament is currently planned for 2 December 2014.

You can enter on your own or with up to three friends.

Your entry

You can be as creative as you like – sing a song, write an advert or eco-drama – or just tell us what you think. It’s entirely up to you. You can enter on your own or with up to three friends.

If you’re wondering where to start, here are a few questions to get you thinking about what you’d say to our European politicians about climate change:

What do you think people should do to protect the environment?

What do you personally do to stay environmentally friendly?

How do you think the way people travel can affect our planet?

What’s your biggest concern about how we treat our world?

If you were an MP or MEP, what would you do to help the UK protect our environment?

Making your video private

If you prefer, you can keep your video private on YouTube, so that only friends that you choose to allow or people with a link can see it. When you’re uploading the video and filling in the form with the title and description, you’ll see a section on Privacy. That’s where you choose who sees the video and pick from these three options:

Public – anyone can search for itUnlisted – anyone with the link can see itPrivate – only specific YouTube users can see it

If you’d prefer your video to be private but you’d still like to share it with us, pick the Unlisted option and send us the link in your email.

Any questions?

If you have any questions on the competition, drop us an email at competitions@eurostar.com, with ‘YPTE’ in the subject line.

Our partnership with the YPTE
We are proud to be partners of the YPTE, a national charity encouraging young people’s understanding of the environment. It’s another part of our Tread Lightly programme to cut our own impact on the environment and encourage people to think differently about travel.